To the 2 hee saith hee knoweth the Lighter … To the 2 hee saith hee knoweth the Lighter in question and wrought upon the repayre<br />
of her as aforesayd and received 3 ''li'' - 9 ''s'' for his paynes therein of the producent Mayer<br />
who imployed him thereabout, And further hee cannot answere/
To the 3 hee saith hee knoweth of all the materialls schedulate used about the sayd<br />
lighter for that hee helped to worke them, and sawe them all used thereabouts and well<br />
knoweth they were worth the prices schedulate And further hee cannot answere/
To the 4th hee saith hee wrought every day upon the sayd Lighter and sawe the rest<br />
of the persons schedulate worke the tyme and dayes schedulate upon sayd Lighter And<br />
saith hee wrought by order of the sayd Maior And further hee cannot depose/
To the 5th hee cannot depose./
Repeated before doctor Godolphin./
William Rolinson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 16th day of Aprill. <u>1656.</u>
Examined upon the sayd Libell
'''Rp 4us'''
'''William Haynes''' of Horsey Downe in the County of Surry Shipp=<br />
Carpenter aged nineteene yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne<br />
and examined saith as followeth. videlicet.
To the first article of the sayd Libell he saith he cannot depose.
To the second article of the sayd Libell, This deponent saith, he knew well the arlate Lighter<br />
the ''William and ffrancis'', And saith that the sayd Lighter within the tyme libellat<br />
(and in the monethes of October and November 1654. ashe now remembreth)<br />
did ly in the River of Thames, and was much decayed in her planckes amd<br />
stood in great need of reparations, whereupon the arlate Mathew Coultman<br />
(who as he sayd had order from her Owners to gett her amended) came to the<br />
sayd John Mayor (who was and is a shipps carpenter by his profession)<br />
and gave his order and desired him sufficiently to repair and amend the<br />
sayd Lighter and to make her tight and strong or to that effect, this deponent<br />
being present when he gave said order. And the sayd John Mayer did<br />
thereupon hire Edward Bigland, William ffurnis. Isaac Meyer, John<br />
Priddam, henry Row, Richard Mallet, Thomas Phillips, and a boy, and did<br />
employ him this deponent; and his fellow servants William Robinson, and<br />
Richard Cooke, to and for the doeing of the sayd repayres, which were by this<br />
deponent and the sayd other persons done accordingly. And the sayd hired<br />
persons were by agreement to have, and did recyve of and from the sayd John<br />
Mayor the severall and respective summes for their worke and labour in the arlate<br />
Schedule mentioned, which Schedule hee hath now read and perused. And this<br />
deponent and his sayd fellow servants doe usually earne the respective summes<br />
sett downe for them in the sayd schedule for the number of dayes workes schedulate<br />
And all the sayd persons were imployed for the respective number of dayes in<br />
the sayd Schedule expressed, which hee knoweth for that he wrought upon the sayd<br />
worke with them and from the beginning to the end thereof. And he further saith<br />
that hee saw all and singular the planckes and other materialls and goods schedulat<br />
imployed in and upon the repaire of the sayd Lighter. And that the same were<br />
then worth the severall and respective summes sett downe in the sayd schedule<br />
which he deposeth for that such like goods were of his knowledge then usually<br />
sold att such rates. And hee saw the sayd wages duly payed to the sayd hired<br />
persons. And doth veleive that the sayd worke and repaires could not have<br />
beene repaires could not have<br />
beene +